It’s Halloween and it’s time for scary stuff. How about knowing some spooky Linux commands that you should not run on your system?
Last year, we had created a few Halloween themed quizzes. It’s time to revisit them.
And if you are feeling too festive, you can give your Linux desktop a Halloween makeover.
💬 Let’s see what else you get in this edition
- Some hardware focused tips for Linux.
- Kali Linux moving away from 32bit builds.
- Windows install on Raspberry Pi.
- Halloween themed quizzes
- And other Linux news, videos and, of course, memes!
- This week’s newsletter is supported by GitPod.
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📰 Linux News
And Fedora 41 is here, a few days ahead of the schedule which is something new for Fedora releases 😀
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🧠 What We’re Thinking About
Politics surely divides! The geopolitics has now reached the Linux kernel development.
🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
Finally, you can rest easy when it comes to monitoring your Linux system, just use one of these GUI task managers. 👇
👷 Maker’s Corner
- Considering a switch from the Raspberry Pi 4 to 5? Let us help you make an informed decision.
- If you were looking for some good OS picks for your Raspberry Pi, then we have a handy list for you.
Our in-house tinkerer has done something very spooky (before Halloween, that too). He has been running Windows on a Raspberry Pi.
📹 Videos We are Creating for You
✨ Apps of the Week
PeaZip is a versatile cross-platform file archiver which has proven to be a great app of the week.
- On the other hand, for Android, there’s Eternity, a cool Lemmy client that doesn’t disappoint.
🧩 Quiz Time
There are many GitHub alternatives, can you identify them in this puzzle?
💡 Quick Handy Tip
In Firefox, if you have many tabs opened, you can close all the duplicate tabs in one go. Click on the List all tabs button in the title bar and select “Close all duplicate tabs”.
🤣 Meme of the Week
Windows weeps, Linux reaps. 😈
🗓️ Tech Trivia
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was signed into law by US President Bill Clinton on October 28, 1998. It was, and still is a controversial copyright law that has misused by many big corporations.
🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse Corner
FOSSers are discussing the early days of Linux with Linus, care to chime in?
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